Re: failure installing emdebian grip powerpc on ibook

[Brendan Simon <Brendan@BrendanSimon.com>]

Neil Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:06:33 +0100
> Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@powercraft.nl> wrote:
>
> > I tried some testing today for debian grip.
>
> > I booted up my system with a live usb stick system
>
> My preferred test would have been a debian-installer USB stick, boot
> into the normal Debian installer and enter the Grip mirror instead of
> one of the listed Debian mirrors.
>
> Debian Live isn't ready for Grip at this time.
>
> > and set my archives to debian sid and emdebian
> >
> > deb http://buildd.emdebian.org/grip/ unstable main
> > deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
>
> That's a mistake - grip is an entirely self-contained repository and
> does not need debian, at least not until after installation when you
> might want extra packages not yet available in Grip.
>
> Specifying a debian mirror will cause debootstrap to select packages
> that you don't want (like man-db and groff).

I have an old PowerPC (G3) iBook and tried to install grip on it via the 
debian-installer (business card iso) but failed.

Steps.
 * select "http" (#)
 * select "enter information manually".
 * specify "buildd.emdebian.org"
 * specify "/grip"
 * specify "unstable"

 # NOTE: specify "http" only showed up on a retry.
   My first few attempts failed as I specified "/grip/" and "grip".
   It seems picky and you have to specify "/grip" exactly.

 * partitioned - using LVM with one group and two volumes (swap & root).

Failed installing base system - Log from VT4 follows.
 <snip>
 debootstrap: E: NOSCRIPT
 debootstrap: EA: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/unstable
 debootstrap: EF: No such script: %s

Any ideas where to go from here ???